Episode 112 – This Sword Is Real

ACOK Chapter 1: Arya I
And so it begins, chapter one of George R.R. Martin’s amazing Clash of Kings. Arya joins the boys this week in a caravan heading out of King’s Landing, and toward the sometimes awkard social exchanges with other young people.

Anyone else here live in the shadow of those Hershey towers? I’m near West Chester. Speaking of Hershey, does anyone remember back in the stone age when the Cookies ‘n Cream were first introduced, that there was a milk chocolate and mint version? I always liked those better. I wish they had come back too.

My own of the next chapter goes tothe straw man for smacking Tommen in the back of the head.

I’m starting to re-read the books, too. I’m about half way through “A Game of Thrones”, but 3 chapters of “A Clash of Kings” per week parallel are certainly no problem. I like reading together with other people and discussing it.
My OWN for the next chapter (Sansa):The Hound, for making Joffrey believe in the “What a man sows on his name day”-stuff that Sansa just made up. And for making Sansa think that she accidentally invented something that was true. *g* Naive little bird.

Regarding James Gandolfini: So sad, way too young, great as Tony Soprano!

I am about half way through Clash of Kings but I think I’ll stop, go back and listen to your podcasts up to the present and then start reading along with you guys.

OT but…….Winter’s Lion,
I don’t currently live in central PA but a good part of my family still does–Mechanicsburg, Carlisle, and York. I went to high school in Mechanicsburg at Cumberland Valley. We used to go to Hershey Park every summer. I swear I’d gain weight just smelling the chocolate in the air there! And if you’ve never been there, I’m not kidding, you CAN smell chocolate in the air.